Why an Open Network Environment?

The Vision of an Open Network Environment

In an Open Network Environment, your network can evolve into an effective business enabler, becoming more open, programmable, and application-aware.

The Cisco Open Network Environment gives you deep programmatic access to take full advantage of network intelligence. It offers a choice of protocols, industry standards, and deployment models that are customizable to several use cases including emerging trends around software defined networking (SDN).

Cisco is delivering the Open Network Environment as a multi-pronged strategy including:

onePK, a comprehensive developer kit with a rich set of platform APIs across Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, and NX-OS Software

Proof-of-concept controllers and SDN/OpenFlow agents for research purposes